Apparel corset



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D. KOPS APPAREL CORSET 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed Dec. 15, 1922 INVEN mg Patented Jan. 1, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

DANIEL KOPS. OF NEW YORK. N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO KOPS BROS. INCL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

APPAREL CORSET.

Application filed December 15, 1922. Serial No. 607,015.

To all w/iom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kore, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York. have invented an Improven'ient in Apparel Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an apparel corset and more particularly to that type of corset garment in which are employed devices at the back for distributing the tension and relieving the pressure over the small of the back of the wearer as well as uplifting devices fitted in the lower front portion of the garment for confining, shap ing and supporting the abdomen of the wearer, these devices cooperating with each other through the intermediate portions of the body of the garment.

I am aware that heretofore similar devices have been employed in apparel corsets, as for example as shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,202,010, granted to me October 17, 1916, in which both the back resting devices and the abdominal supporting devices were placed on the inner side of the garment, and also as shown in Letters Patent No. 1,214,180, granted to me January 30, 1917, in which the back resting devices are inserted to form a portion of the back sections of the arment. In both these instances the bacli resting devices have consisted in straps attached to the body por tions of the garment along predetermined lines and extending toward the baclr lacing edges of the garment. These back resting straps have been itted with series of eyelets through which, as well as through the eyelets in the back lacing edges of the garment, the customary laces have been threaded to adjust the garment to position on the body of the wearer. In these various instances, however, the length of the back resting straps has been materially shorter than the adjacent portion of the body of the garment so that in adjusting the garment to position the tension has been first applied to the back resting straps. In some instances this has resulted in producing a wrinkled effect in the body of the garment, and the object of my invention is to overcome this difiiculty.

In carrying out the invention, the garment in which the same is employed is the usual type of back lace corsets. In each corset body half and in the back portion thereof I employ a back resting strap on the inner side of the garment attached along one edge to the body of the garment an apprecia le dislance from the back lacing edge thereof and extending toward the back lacing edge, the said back resting strap being provided at its opposite edge with a series of eyelets. In this structure the distance between the line of connection between the back resting strap and the lacing edge thereof is appreciably greater than that of the overlyin portion of the garment between the attaciment of the back resting strap thereto and the lacing edge thereof. By this construction when tension is applied by the laces employed to adjust the garment to position the adjacent overlying portions of the corset are, first drawn to place and by the use of elastic inserts extending from the lower edge of the garment to approximately the upper edge of the back resting strap and runn ng parallel with the back lacing edge the adjacent overlying portion of the body of the arment is permitted to adjust itself to position, obviating any possibility of a wrinkled condition. lhe invention also includes the adjustable confining and supporting straps at the front portions thereof which, through the intermediate portions of the garment, react with the back resting straps to form a substantially complete girdle by the use of which the abdomen of the wearer is supported and the tension distributed and the pressure relieved at the small of the back to also produce the back resting features.

The corset made in accordance with my present invention will be hereinafter more particularly described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is aperspective view of a corset made in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on line 22, F ig. 1. i

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on line 3 3, Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged elevation showing portions of the. back of the garment.

Fig. 5 is an elevation showing the lower. front portion of the garment, and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged elevation of the lower inner front portion o fone of the corset body halves.

Referring to the drawing, the outset in V 23 is secured in the I {stitching 24 distant from the back lacing which my present invention is embodied is the usual back lace garment comprising corset body halves 10 and 11. In the front of the corset body halves there are the usual steels 12 and 13 fitted respectively with stud and socket members comprising the clasps 14 by which the parts of the garment are secured at the front of the body. The corset body halves are also provided with depending skirt members 15 and 16 and the back or lacing edges of the corset body halves are fitted with series of eyelets 17 and 18 respectively through which the customary adjusting laces 19 are threaded in the usual manner.

' At the back of the corset body half 10. there is a back resting strap '20. This strap is secured to the body of the garment distantfrom the lacing edge of the corset body half along a line of stitching indicated at 21 and extends toward the lacing edge of the garment. At its opposite edge the back resting strap 20 is provided with a series of eyelets 22 spaced in the same manner as the eyelets in the adjacent back lacing edge of the garment. The upper and lower edges of this back resting strap are preferably tapered so that the free edge of the strap in which the eyelets are placed is appreciably longer than .the opposite edge thereof along which the strap is secured to the body of the garment. Furthermore, the length of this back resting strap is appreciably greater than the length of the overlying portion of the body I of the arment, that is to say the circumferentiadistance between the line of stitching 21 and the series of eyeletsin the free edge of the strap is appreciably greater than the circumferential distance between the line of stitching 21 and the series of eyelets 17 in the corresponding back lacing edge of the garment.

Similarly the corset body half 11 is fitted with a back restin' strap 23 corresponding in all respects to t e back resting strap 20 but, as will be understood, in an oppositely disposed position. This back resting strap garment along a line of edge of the corset body half. At its opposite or free edge the back resting strap 23 is provided with a series of eyelets 25. The relationship between the back resting strap and the adjacent portion of the body of the garment is similar to that between the back resting strap 20 and its overlying portion of the body of the garment, that is to say, the

distance between the line of stitching 24 and the series of eye-lets 25 is appreciably greater cir'cumfere tially of" the garment than the distance be ween the line of stitching 24 and the series of eyelets 18 in the. back lacing edge of this corset body half of the garment,

In the cor's'et body half 10 1 employ an elastic or yielding insert 26. This, as illustrated, preferably extends from the lower edge of the garment upwardly parallel and adjacent to the back lacin edge to a point or line at approximately t e upper edge of the back resting strap 20 as is indicated at 27. The other corset body half is similarly constructed, being provided with an elastic or yielding insert 28 which extends from the lower edge of the garment upwardly in a position parallel and adjacent to the lacing edge of this corset body half to a line or point 29 at approximately the upper edge of the back resting strap 23. The adjustin laces 19 are threaded through the eyelets 1% and 18 and also through the corresponding eyelets 22 and 25 in the adjacent edges of the back resting straps, and as will now be apparent in the adjustment of the parts of the garment to position on the body of the wearer the tension will first be applied to the overlying portions of the body of the garment and then to the back resting straps in such a manner that the back resting straps will assume the desired position and the overlying portions of the body of the garment will adjust themselves to place because of the elastic or yielding inserts and will furthermore yield with the movements of the body so as to maintain a uniformly fiat or even surface which, because of this structure, cannot possibly become wrinkled.

The uplift tension straps as applied to the lower front portions of the garment are similarly constructed in each corset body half thereof and consequently but one of these supporting devices will be described "the clasp at 32. The supporting uplifting stra is indicated at 33. This is connected to t e lower portion of the front steel section along a line of stitching 34 and extends an appreciable distance therefrom. At its opposite ed e the uplift strap 33 is provided with a reinforcing strip 35 in which there is a series of eyelets 36. The adjustable uplift supporting devices also include an anchor strap 37 secured in the body of the garment along the line of stitching 38, and the anchor strap is provided with a series of eye lets 39 corresponding to the eyelets in the adjacent ed e of the uplift strap 33. A lace 40 is threa ed through the eyelets 36 and 39 and also through eyelets 41 provided for this purpose in the body of the garment so that the ends of the lace are available for the adjustment of the uplifting and supporting strap from the exterior 0 the garment. As will now be apparent the back resting straps, together with the straps at the front of the garment for confining and supporting the abdomen coacting with the intermediate portions of the body of the garment, form a substantially complete girdle for the purposes hereinbefore described.

Furthermore, as illustrated, although forming no part of the present invention the corset body halves of the garment may be provided with elastic or yielding insert members 42 in the upper edges thereof at substantially the axillar portions thereof to form pockets for or to otherwise dispose of the fleshy parts of the body which might otherwise overhang the upper edge of the corset garment. Still furthermore, and as is also customary, the lower front portions of the corset body halves may have hose supporters 43 depending from the skirt members, and in suitable positions at the forward side portions of the garment there may also be provided hose supporters depending from the lower edge of the garment as indicated at 44.

It will be understood that in the foregoing description and in the accompanying claims the length of the back restin strap refers to the distance between its ine of attachment to the body of the garment and the line of the series of eyelets therein and that the length of the body of the garment adjacent the back resting straps means the distance between the line of attachment of the back resting straps to the body of the garment and the line of the eyelets secured at the lacing edge of the garment.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half having a back lacing edge, a back resting strap secured along one edge in a line of stitching distance from the back lacing edge and extending toward the same and having a lacing edge adjacent the back lacing edge of the garment, the length of the back resting strap between the line of attachment and the lacing edge thereof being appreciably greater than the adjacent portion of the body of the garment between the line of attachment of the back resting strap and the back lacing edge of the garment, an elastic insert extending from the lower edge of the garment parallel to the back lacing edge thereof to approximately the upper edge of the said back resting strap whereby in adjusting the garment to position the tension exerted by the laces is first applied to the back lacing edges of the portions of the garment overlying the back resting straps to bring the back lacing edges of the garment into alignment with the back lacing edges of the back resting straps and then is applied simultaneously to. both the back lacing edges of the garment and the lacing edges of the back restiaigstraps.

2. In an apparel corset and in each corsel body half having a back lacing edge, a back resting strap secured along one edge in a line of stitching distant from the back lac ing edge and extendin toward the same, the said back resting strap raving a series of eye-- lets therein along the edge opposite the edge in which it is attached to the garment, with the upper and lower ed es of the back resting strap diverging, ma ing the lacing edge thereof appreciably longer than the edge in which it is attached to the garment, the length of the back resting strap between the line of attachment and the lacing edge thereof being appreciably greater than the adjacent portion of the body of the garment between the line of attachment of the back resting strap and the back lacing edge of the garment, an elastic insert extending from the lower edge of the garment parallel to the back lacing edge thereof to approximately the upper edge of the said back resting stra whereby in adjusting the garment to position the tension exerted by the laces is first applied to the back lacing edges of the portions of the garment overl ing the back resting straps to bring the ack lacing edges of the garment into alignment with the ack lacing edges of the back resting straps and then is applied simultaneously to both the back lacing edges of the garment and the lacing edges of the back resting straps.

3. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, adjustable supporting devices in the lower front portion extending from the lower end of the front steel rearwardly toward the hip section, and a back resting stra secured along one edge in the body of t e garment and having a lacing edge adjacent the back lacing edge of the garment, the length of the back resting strap being appreciably greater than the length of the overlying portion of the body of the garment whereby the supporting devices with the back resting strap and the intermediate portion of the garment form a supporting and pressure relieving girdle substantially surrounding the body of the wearer.

4. In an apparel corset and in each corset H Ti lying portion of the body of the garment, and an elastic insert extending upwardly from the lower edge of the garment parallel to the back lacing edge to a point substanb tially at the upper edge of the back resting strap whereby in adjusting the arment to rosition the tension exerted b t e laces is 'rst applied to the portions 0 the garment overlying the back resting straps and then to the back resting straps which latter c0- aoting with the supporting devices in the front of the garment through the intermediate body ortion thereof form a girdle surrounding t e body of the wearer.

Signed by me this 1st day of December, 19

DANIEL KOPS. 

